Today I was thinking about my grocery budget. I include all things household in this. Now I'm thinking it's time to budget specifically for household items, rather than including it in my food shop? I'm thinking maybe £20 or so for household items would be reasonable. I'll add it to my budget next month and see. Of course, now I will actually be paying attention to what I'm spending on these items whereas normally I would just count them as "food". Hope this makes sense.
I've had a chance to think about our meals for the week too. I'll make sausage casserole, pork with potatoes and veg and baked potatoes with beans. I'm expecting leftovers.
Household category?
June 15th, 2013 at 06:52 pm
June 16th, 2013 at 03:05 am 1371351945
We add the cost of any meals eaten out to grocery expenses to work out how much was spent on the food category. None food items like cleaning supplies, laundry products, paper products, zip bags, foil, cooking parchment and kitchen tools etc. are a separate line item. I do my best to buy those at discount stores that are part of my regular route. If they're on-sale for a better price at the grocery, I hold them back until all the edibles have been tallied and ask the clerk to subtotal before adding non-edibles. We buy dog food at a processor and all pet stuff goes on a separate category. This summer I've trying to keep 'junk food' in a sub category because the chips, finger foods and crackers that are in the pantry. We're having folks for dinner tomorrow and have had overnight guests but just realized we're back buying junk.
June 29th, 2013 at 12:24 am 1372465484